By Catherine Gonzalez|2026-09-18T14:20:19+02:0018.09.2026|
Boosting Biodata Bootcamp The NFDI4Microbiota hosted its Annual Conference from 15–17 September 2026 at RWTH Aachen University. The CRC1382 was represented at the conference by the data steward Catherine Gonzalez as well as the Technical training and consulting team lead, Dr. Lukas C. Bossert, from the RWTH IT Center Research [...]
By Catherine Gonzalez|2026-03-02T14:45:46+01:0002.03.2026|
Behind the Data: Understanding RDM Roles Who Does What? Data Steward vs Data Engineer vs Data Scientist As our data landscape grows, you may hear terms like Data Steward, Data Engineer, and Data Scientist. These roles sound similar, but they focus on very different parts of the data lifecycle. Here’s a simple [...]
By Catherine Gonzalez|2026-02-18T16:34:16+01:0018.02.2026|
Data Lake vs. Data Mesh Data Lake: The current landscape A Data Lake is a centralized place where data from many teams is stored together. While this can be convenient, it often means that the people who best understand the data (the domain experts) are not the ones defining how [...]
By Catherine Gonzalez|2025-08-05T08:17:56+02:0003.07.2025|
Metadata: Data about Data? What is it? Metadata has been defined as data about data, a "love note to the future" (Scott, Jason. 2011. “The Metadata Mania.” ASCII. http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/3181.). It is a way to give context to the data so that it can be understood and reused at a later [...]
By Catherine Gonzalez|2024-06-19T12:51:55+02:0019.06.2024|
Coscine - Your Platform for Research Data Management Logo taken from: RWTH Blog What is it? Coscine is, together with RWTH Publications, the main resource to archive and publish data that cannot use other publicly available resources. One of the goals for the second funding period of the [...]
By Catherine Gonzalez|2023-03-07T14:31:32+01:0007.03.2023|
LaTeX: Allowing you to focus on content, not appearance. Logo taken from: www.latex-project.org What is it? LaTeX is a software system used to prepare documents from smaller documents such as resumes and articles to large documents such as books. LaTeX is not the same as Microsoft Word! [...]
By Lukas C. Bossert|2022-04-29T12:40:38+02:0011.01.2022|
Research Data Management is essential. It is not only demanded more and more by third party funder (e.g. DFG) but it helps to stay organized and understand your data even in years to come. Sometimes only small changes will make a big difference and help you to meet the standards described as Good Scientific [...]
By Lukas C. Bossert|2022-01-04T09:40:30+01:0009.06.2021|
Research Data Management is essential. It is not only demanded more and more by third party funder (e.g. DFG) but it helps to stay organized and understand your data even in years to come. Sometimes only small changes will make a big difference and help you to meet the standards described as Good Scientific [...]
By Lukas C. Bossert|2022-01-04T09:40:14+01:0009.06.2021|
Research Data Management is essential. It is not only demanded more and more by third party funder (e.g. DFG) but it helps to stay organized and understand your data even in years to come. Sometimes only small changes will make a big difference and help you to meet the standards described as Good Scientific [...]
By Lukas C. Bossert|2022-02-07T22:23:59+01:0009.06.2021|
Due to illness, this date must unfortunately be postponed. I sincerely apologize for any inconvenience. I look forward to welcoming you back to the workshop on March 2. Research Data Management is essential. It is not only demanded more and more by third party funder (e.g. DFG) but it helps to stay organized and [...]
